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E-resource - Frontier Life: Borderlands, Settlement & Colonial Encounters

A digital collection of primary source documents covering the lives of immigrants and Indigenous peoples in various European and colonial frontier regions of North America, Africa, and Australasia. Topics covered include land and property, women's history, religion, the natural world, warfare, health and medicine, family, business and trade, agriculture, arts and entertainment, politics, and more. Resources include correspondence, diaries, government papers, business records, land transactions, legal documents, speeches, books and pamphlets.

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University of Oklahoma Libraries has licensed this database for an unlimited number of simultaneous users.

For information about using this database, view the publisher's online tutorial.